There was NO way that was "HD" LOL. No way it was 480p.
The quality was really good when it worked, but like others, I had it:
-repeatedly start over from the beginning
-"flicker" between playing and showing a black screen repeatedly
-hmm...I know there was more weird stuff than that. Occasionally lost the picture too, though that was far less annoying than the first two.
At any rate, Apple's old streaming keynotes used to work a LOT better for me, although this had higher quality video (I think) when it was working.
Since I already wrote this for another forum...
-no iPad updates. 4.2 coming later this year. (4.1/4.2 do sound like useful OS updates).
-iTunes 10 today, has an IMO worthless social networking component
-iPod shuffle got physical controls again. (I had a second gen shuffle that died within a few weeks...)
-iPod Nano unbelievably LOST the ability to play video, which IMO is kind of a joke. If anything it seems like an expensive shuffle, with an iPod touch/iPhone style mini-touch screen displaying 4 icons at once. At least it has hardware volume controls.
-iPod classic wasn't mentioned, though I guess they're continuing to sell it. Right now the classic and touch are the only two I'd consider.
-iPod touch-they made it thinner, added two cameras, appeared to add a microphone, and switched to the same 4x resolution IPS screen the iPhone uses. No mention on whether the RAM has been doubled, no mention about clock speeds...so it could be slower than the third gen iPod touch for all we know. It LOOKS like the 2nd gen model has finally been dumped. I think they jumped the 8GB model from second to fourth gen, while increasing the price $30...it's WELL worth $30 for at least 2x the RAM and an ARM Cortex A8 versus an ARM 11.
-Gameroom or whatever it's called is coming in 4.1 I think they said.
-Epic demoed an Unreal 3 engine game, which actually looked amazing in the video, although it sort of seemed like it was all forced perspective stuff-a fighting game-so the graphics may not actually be 1/2 as impressive as they looked.
-AppleTV. Keeps it's name, DOESN'T run iOS programs, drops from $230 to $100. Loses the hard drive and is 1/4 the size. It's a streaming only box. Apple's pricing on content makes no sense, so essentially it's a Netflix streaming box for $100. Now it may end up being a really great one, but there's already been a $100 Netflix streaming box, tons of other products do that too, including a Toshiba Blu Ray player I saw for $130 in an add this week ($180 for a Sony, I think). Sooooo it's somewhat interesting, but I'm not sure it really makes any sense.
It MIGHT let you rent a movie on your computer through iTunes, download it, and then stream it over your network-useful for those of us who have slower network connections, or hate the inevitable jankyness of streaming media.
I continue to think the Mac Mini would make the perfect 'set top box' if only it had Blu Ray. It would handle Blu Ray, DVD, Netflix, Hulu, Apple's stuff, etc., all in one box that idles at 8 watts, and probably boots fast too. Heck, Apple could design a Mac Mini that did all that AND was a great DVR...
So...from my perspective, it's a lot of side-grades. Only really good one is the iPod touch, which (assuming the battery life isn't even worse than before) at least gets a microphone and a higher quality LCD, and MAYBE better hardware too.
